#essence

Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#part #pursuit #seduction #sexuality #sizzle

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise. ↗

— Charles Sanders Peirce

#belief #beliefs #different #different beliefs #distinguished

The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus. ↗

— John Piper

#essence #faith #god #jesus #satisfied

How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated? ↗

— Robert Plant

#become #consider #could #desire #essence

The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#bible #christianity #death #essence #evil

[...] Essence simply enjoys and commits attention and love to whatever is. In fact, committing attention to anything that is present results in enjoyment. The ego enjoys so little because it commits attention to what isn't present and to what it doesn't have, and suffers over that, instead of committing attention to whatever is. It loves its fantasies, dreams, and desires more than it loves reality. ↗

— Gina Lake

#essence #living-now #dreams

The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception. ↗

— Knute Rockne

#blocking #deception #essence #execution #football

You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park. ↗

— Andy Roddick

#central park #essence #get #hanging #just

The essence of genius is to know what to overlook. ↗

— William James

#genius #know #overlook

The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#down #drawing #essence #form #good